JMS Contract Job Trends in Central London

Java Messaging Service (JMS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring JMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 123 133
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 +47
Contract jobs citing JMS 4 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.18% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.81% 0.95% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £544 £468
25th Percentile - - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -17.84%
75th Percentile - £600 £676
90th Percentile - £690 £781
London median daily rate £516 £598 £525
% change year-on-year -13.72% +13.81% -25.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

JMS falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 495 529 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.15% 25.79% 20.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 344 366
10th Percentile £367 £406 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.68% -11.96%
75th Percentile £653 £682 £688
90th Percentile £750 £771 £788
London median daily rate £541 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -5.93% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £24.20 - -
25th Percentile £26.00 £41.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £41.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% -12.63% -20.17%
75th Percentile £50.56 £41.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £56.06 - -
London median hourly rate £46.50 £45.00 £42.35
% change year-on-year +3.33% +6.27% -35.25%

JMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

JMS job vacancy trend in Central London

JMS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing JMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing JMS

JMS
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing JMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing JMS

JMS
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JMS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -8 4 £550 - 2
JMS
London

JMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (75.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Front Office
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) FIX Protocol
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) Middleware
1 3 (75.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (75.00%) Equities
1 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Electronic Trading
1 3 (75.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Order Management
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Runbook
1 3 (75.00%) Smart Order Routing
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (75.00%) Bloomberg
1 3 (75.00%) Charles River
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk